Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow..

Talk without effort is nothing..

African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a li….

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!.

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field ….

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny..

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!.

give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dign….

... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, li….

Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he ha….

Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless and undaunte….

... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence….

Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished tha….

Am I not a woman and a sister?.